by Karen Smith | Apr 8, 2025 | Blog
Spring in southwestern Ohio is notoriously wet and the weather unpredictable. Last week, we got three inches of rain last week. Monday morning, I woke up to snow. My poor magnolia! With nearly 10 inches of rainfall thus far this year, my yard and pastures are …...
by Karen Smith | Mar 31, 2025 | Blog
Publishing is an unregulated industry, thus rife with bad actors and scams. Authors who don’t exert the effort to educate themselves fall prey to predatory practices and find themselves out of a lot of money. Follow the money The first rule of publishing is to...
by Karen Smith | Mar 25, 2025 | Blog
A potential client recently accepted my offer to provide her with a sample edit. I received the first 1,000 words of her manuscript and dug in. The first three paragraphs dwelled on world-building, expository description of the protagonist’s immediate...
by Karen Smith | Mar 11, 2025 | Blog
The cognitive dissonance is real. A barrage of celebratory posts and posts decrying rampant misogyny and more posts about wokeness erasing women from language and law heralded International Women’s Day (March 8). It reminded me of two things: 1. Take Back the...
by Karen Smith | Mar 5, 2025 | Blog
One might think that some who’s an editor, ghostwriter, and author would have experience with book clubs. In my case, one would be wrong. A high school friend of my younger son invited me to join a book club she was starting. I accepted. She scheduled a date,...
